The lawsuit favorably quotes the mayor, while condemning city policies that bar cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

The U.S. Department of Justice is suing New York City and Mayor Eric Adams over its sanctuary city laws, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi. In a post on social media Thursday afternoon, Bondi said Adams and the city are “continuing to obstruct law enforcement” with the sanctuary city laws in place.

Adams’s past campaigns have been dogged by reports of suspicious or potentially unvetted donations. Last September, the Justice Department indicted the mayor, alleging that Adams knowingly solicited illegal foreign contributions and straw donations and applied for public matching funds using the illicit dollars, among other offenses.